About the Authors

Anne M. May

a.m.may@umcutrecht.nl

Affiliations Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Dora Romaguera

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Noémie Travier

Affiliation Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain

Ulf Ekelund

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Manuela M. Bergmann

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Rudolf Kaaks

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Birgit Teucher

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Annika Steffen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Jytte Halkjaer

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anne Tjonneland

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark

Marianne Uhre Jakobsen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Kim Overvad

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Cardiology, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Laureen Dartois

Affiliations INSERM, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Paris-Sud University, Villejuif, France

Guy Fagherazzi

Affiliations INSERM, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Paris-Sud University, Villejuif, France

Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault

Affiliations INSERM, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Paris-Sud University, Villejuif, France

J. Ramón Quirós

Affiliation Public Health and Participation Directorate, Asturias, Spain

Antonio Agudo

Affiliation Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain

Carlos Gonzalez

Affiliation Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain

María-José Sánchez

Affiliations Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain, CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain

Pilar Amiano

Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain, Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, Basque Government, Spain

Jose-Maria Huerta

Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Authority, Murcia, Spain

Eva Ardanaz

Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain, Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain

Nicholas J. Wareham

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Francesca L. Crowe

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Androniki Naska

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Philippos Orfanos

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Antonia Trichopoulou

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Domenico Palli

Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, CSPO-Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy

Claudia Agnoli

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, IRCCS Foundation, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy

Rosario Tumino

Affiliation Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, “Civile - M.PArezzo” Hospital, Ragusa, Italy

Paolo Vineis

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy

Salvatore Panico

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale Federico il University, Naples, Italy

H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

Affiliations National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Monique Verschuren

Affiliations Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Isabel Drake

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Emily Sonestedt

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Tonje Braaten

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Sabina Rinaldi

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), Lyon, France

Isabelle Romieu

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), Lyon, France

Nadia Slimani

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), Lyon, France

Teresa Norat

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Elio Riboli

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Petra H. M. Peeters

Affiliations Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMM DR NT UE MMB PHMP. Performed the experiments: AMM DR. Analyzed the data: AMM DR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMM DR NT UE MMB RK BT AS HB JH AT MUJ KO LD GF MCBR JRQ AA CG MJS PA JMH EA NJW FLC AN PO AT DP CA RT PV SP HBB WMMV ID ES TB SR IR NS TN ER PHMP. Wrote the paper: AMM. Principal investigator of the EPIC-PANACEA project: PHMP. Overall coordinator of the EPIC study: ER. Approved the final version of the manuscript: AMM DR NT UE MMB RK BT AS HB JH AT MUJ KO LD GF MCBR JRQ AA CG MJS PA JMH EA NJW FLC AN PO AT DP CA RT PV SP HBB WMMV ID ES TB SR IR NS TN ER PHMP.